What 🮝 means
It was one shaded tile for character-cell pictures. Sharp’s MZ-700 home computer launched in Japan around 1982 with this glyph in its European set of built-in screen shapes. Its 88 character cells joined into rough images; Unicode preserved the tile for legacy text.
Why does 🮝 show as a box?
Font support varies by terminal. As of 2026, some terminal emulators draw legacy glyphs themselves; others need a font that contains them.
A technical tile for character-cell screen art.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 🮝 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 🮝
- Search it as
- mz-700 · retro · terminal · graphics · tile
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
🮝CSS
\1FB9DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🮝
HTML hex
🮝
CSS content
content: "\1FB9D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AE%9D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.